$20K NEO robot becomes instant meme material
“This is just a tall Roomba.”
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The internet is having a field day with NEO, the $20,000 “home robot.”
Animal Crossing fans received a surprise announcement last week that was a complete 180 from Nintendo’s previous messaging about the franchise.
A YouTuber shared how he convinced Google that GTA 6 would have a “twerk button.”
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NEO, the $20K home robot, sparks memes before it can even clean a room—22 of the best
Robotics company 1X dropped news of the humanoid helper called NEO Home Robot and opened preorders, and the internet immediately started posting memes about it. While some people dreamed about a friendly laundry-folding buddy, others compared the robot to a cursed mannequin that wandered out of a mall display.
Nothing says “future of home robotics” like video edits of a $20,000 helper wobbling like a Sim, after all.
“Never lose hope”: Nintendo just gave Animal Crossing fans exactly what they’ve been begging for
For years, the community assumed New Horizons had quietly drifted into maintenance mode. After all, the game had not seen a truly major patch since 2021. Yet, as Nintendo dropped the surprise announcement that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting updates for both Switch consoles, the series burst back into the conversation.
The return of updates also stirred questions about Nintendo’s long-term plans for the franchise on the new hardware. Nevertheless, fans embraced the surprise and immediately started imagining the return to their islands.
“I tricked the AI”: YouTuber Jeffery Phillips explains how he convinced Google’s AI into believing GTA 6 had a “Twerk Button”
YouTuber Jeffery Phillips spent nearly two months proving how easy it can be to fool artificial intelligence. In a 20-minute video, Phillips explained that his mission wasn’t about fame or clicks; it was about “making artificial intelligence artificial stupid.” He wanted to show just how fragile Google’s new AI overview system could be when faced with well-placed misinformation.
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🚪 A traveler has had enough of arriving at hotels only to discover the bathroom has no real door—or worse, a see-through glass one that barely closes.
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🧩 Parents on Reddit are sharing their outside-the-box hacks that they say actually work.
🔥 Hot on the Dot
This was the most-read story on the Daily Dot yesterday:
The meme response actually captures something serious about humanoid robot adoption timelines that VCs keep missing. When your $20k product gets compared to a wobbly Sim before it ships that's a trust problem not a marketing problm. The tall Roomba comparison is particularly brutal because it highlights that wheeled robots already solve most of what people actually need done at home for way less money. Until humanoids can demonstrate reliable complex manipulation beyond folding laundry demos the price premium versus purpose built solutions makes zero sense for consumers.